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Studies and Analyses

Brain Circuitry Changes Impact Moral Sensitivity in Growth

Both preschool children and adults distinguish between damage done either intentionally or accidently when assessing whether a perpetrator had done something…

Earth Sciences

NASA’s Infrared Satellite Tracks Severe Weather in Georgia

Infrared imagery basically shows temperature signatures. That means that scientists can determine how hot or cold something is by looking at something using…

Earth Sciences

NASA Captures Stunning Image of Super Typhoon Songda

The Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) instrument on NASA's Aqua satellite captured an infrared image of Super Typhoon Songda on May 27, 2011 at 5:05 UTC…

Physics & Astronomy

NASA's Swift finds most distant gamma-ray burst yet

“What's important about this event isn't so much the 'what' but the 'where,'” said Neil Gehrels, lead scientist for Swift at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center…

Earth Sciences

Exploring Alaska Glaciers: Insights from Research Professor

Anthony Arendt, an assistant research professor at the University of Alaska Fairbanks Geophysical Institute, has outlined the complexity and influence of…

Physics & Astronomy

Chameleon Magnets: New Control Could Transform Computing

What causes a magnet to be a magnet, and how can we control a magnet's behavior? These are the questions that University at Buffalo researcher Igor Zutic, a…

Life & Chemistry

UNC Team Unveils Solution to Mouse Genome Research Challenge

Laboratory research has always been limited in terms of what conclusions scientists can safely extrapolate from animal experiments to the human population as a…

Health & Medicine

New Pathway Regulates Angiogenesis in Retinal Disease and Cancer

Researchers report that myeloid cells, blood cells involved in the immune system, use this molecular pathway to guide blood vessel patterning in the retina….

Health & Medicine

Obesity vs. Alcohol: Fatty Liver Risks Unveiled

It has long been known that large amounts of alcohol can cause fatty liver. More recent research has shown that obesity and insulin resistance can also cause…

Life & Chemistry

Lipid Genetics Advances Enhance Disease Detection and Prevention

In the first study, Dr. Joanne Curran from the Texas Biomedical Research Institute, San Antonio, USA, will tell the conference that lipidomic profiling will…

Physics & Astronomy

New Synchrotron Technique Reveals Hidden Building Blocks of Life

Life, as we know it, is based on the chemistry of carbon and oxygen. The three-dimensional distribution of their abundance and chemical bonds has been…

Studies and Analyses

Flu Triggers Asthma: New Insights from Boston Researchers

When children with asthma get the flu, they often land in the hospital gasping for air. Researchers at Children's Hospital Boston have found a previously…

Environmental Conservation

Tiny Bubbles Reveal Coral Reef Crisis, Study Finds

A new study from University of Miami (UM) Rosenstiel School of Marine & Atmospheric Science scientists Chris Langdon, Remy Okazaki and Nancy Muehllehner and…

Life & Chemistry

Laboratory Mouse Insights: UNC Researchers Share Key Findings

Churchill and Fernando Pardo-Manuel de Villena, Ph.D., of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, leading an international research team, created a…

Health & Medicine

Acupuncture Helps Alleviate Unexplained Symptoms, Study Finds

A research team from the Institute of Health Services Research, Peninsula Medical School, University of Exeter, has carried out a randomised control trial and…

Machine Engineering

Siemens Enhances Portfolio With High-Precision Pressure Transmitters

Thanks to its response speed (T63) of 88ms and its accuracy of 0.03%, the Sitrans P500 is able to respond quickly and precisely to changes in processes. An…

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